Jacques Torres, award-winning pastry chef, says adding an extra egg to the batter will give it extra richness and moisture.

The 2026 Pastry Awards recognise the world's leading pâtisseries and the pastry chefs behind some of the most inventive and ...

Because vanilla shouldn't mean boring.

Nicolas Guercio, the executive pastry chef at Hôtel Lutetia. Julie Limont Guercio, who at one point also wanted to be a motorcycle cop, took a circuitous route to find his dream job. Despite his ...

There’s a cliché in the restaurant industry that line cooks are afraid of pastry. They’ll complain it’s too precise, requires too much measurement. Add to that the fact that most culinary schools silo ...

Justine MacNeil’s hands seem to hover over the brioche dough as she shapes it from amorphous mounds into perfectly round ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Westend61 / Getty Images You might think that professional pastry chefs bake everything from scratch — that they’ve come up with a ...

You might think, “It’s just dessert,” which is precisely why the endangered pastry chef has vanished from so many restaurants’ payrolls. This is First Person, where members of the Bay Area food ...